Position in chronology
SAA 06 244. Dannaya Buys a Slave (672-VI-5) (ADD 0178)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Hattayu, owner of the man being sold. (blank seal space) (3) Lu-ahhe, his servant — (4) Dannaya has contracted and bought him from Hattayu for 20 shekels of silver. (6) The money is paid completely. That man is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (9) Whoever breaks the contract [shall pay x min]as of sil[ver and x minas of go]ld. (Break) (r 1) [He shall contest in his l]awsu[it and not succeed]. (r 2) Witness Šamaš-[il]a'i, [...]. (r 3) Witness Himarî, ditto. (r 4) Witness Zabdâ, chariot driver. (r 5) Witness Hara-Dadi, ditto. (r 6) Witness Mannu-ki-ahhe, staff bearer (r 8) Witness Urda-Inurta, carpenter. (r 9) Month Elul (VI), 5th day, eponym year of Nabû-belu-uṣur. (r 11) Witness Urda-Inurta, scribe.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mḫa-ta-a.a / EN LÚ SUM-a-ni / mlu—PAB-MEŠ ARAD-šú / ú-⸢piš⸣-ma <m>dan-na-a.a / TAv IGI mḫa-ta-a.a / ina ŠÀ 20 GÍN KUG.UD il-qi / kas-pu ga-mur ta-din / LÚ šu-a-te za-rip laq-qi / tu-a-ru de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / ⸢man⸣-nu ša i-GIL-u-ni / [x MA].NA KUG.[UD x MA.NA KUG].⸢GI*⸣ / [ina] ⸢de*-ni*⸣-[šú DUG₄.DUG₄-ma la i-laq-qi] / IGI md⸢šá-maš⸣—[DINGIR]-⸢a.a⸣ [LÚ.x x] / ⸢IGI⸣ mḫi-ma-ri-i :…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335128.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335128/..
Translation excerpted from Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335128/.
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